ART. 81] STATE AUDITOR. 1885

and returns as may be needed or useful for carrying out the
provisions of this sub-title.
Fowble v. Kemp, 92 Md. 632.

State Auditor.

1902, ch. 257, sec. 217.

225. There shall be in the treasury department a State
auditor, to be appointed by the governor, comptroller and
treasurer, or a majority of them, who shall take the oath pre-
scribed by the constitution, and shall hold his office for two
years from the date of his qualification, and until the appoint-
ment and qualification of his successor, and shall receive a
salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, payable quar-
terly, and such expenses (not exceeding five hundred dollars
in any one year), as may be audited by the comptroller, who
shall issue his warrants for the quarterly payments of the
salary, and for such an amount of expenses as said comptroller
shall allow. He shall give a bond to the State of Maryland
in the penalty of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his duties, with surety to be
approved by the comptroller.

Ibid sec. 218.

226. The State auditor shall, on or before the first day of
December in each year, make an examination of the books
and accounts of all clerks of courts, registers of willst, sheriffs
and State's attorneys of the State of Maryland, including the
city of Baltimore; he shall also, on or before the first day of
October in each year, examine the books and accounts of the
State tobacco warehouses, and such other accounts of other
State officers not herein enumerated, as the board of public
works may direct He shall personally visit all of the afore-
said offices at least once a year, and oftener, if in his judgment
it is necessary so to do. The State auditor shall, on or before
the first day of December in each year, make a full and detailed
report in writing to the board of public works of the result of
his examinations of the books and accounts of the officer so
examined by him. It shall be his duty in such annual reports
to make suggestions as to changes in the conduct of such
offices and in the method of keeping the books and accounts
in the offices examined by him, and also as to changes in the
form of the reports made by said officers to the comptroller.
It shall also be the duty of the said State auditor to report all
violations of the law in the conduct of such offices and in the